Although Sima Zheng was incompetent, he ruled for seventeen years. If Sima Zheng was a pathological "idiot", how could the ministers have assisted him for seventeen years?
The Western Jin Dynasty was a brief unified dynasty that ended the turmoil of the Three Kingdoms, and only went through four emperors. Except for Sima Yan, the founding emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty, who created the "rule of Taikang", the remaining three emperors, Sima Zheng, the Emperor of Jinhui, were called "idiot emperors", and the Emperor Sima Zhi of Jinhuai and Sima Yi, the emperor of Jin, were all puppet emperors, and all three emperors were killed and died in the end. The death of the Western Jin Dynasty, ostensibly due to emperor Huan of Jin, but in fact died to emperor Hui of Jin. It was precisely because of Sima Zheng's incompetence that led to the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings", which made a good-mannered "Taikang Prosperous World" blink into a hell on earth. As a result, Sima Zheng was often called "the idiot emperor" in history.
Sima Zheng, Emperor Hui of Jin
But is Sima Zheng really an "idiot"? You can't say that either. The author believes that Sima Zheng is an incompetent emperor who is not false and has a low IQ, but he is not a pathological "idiot", but a political "idiot".
<h1>Sima Zheng's argument for being called an "idiot" is insufficient </h1>
Sima Zheng's call as an "idiot" comes from two stories of his experience. One story is the story of "why not eat meat paste", and the other story is the allusion to "who is the toad called". It is said that there was a year of disaster, and the people could not eat or drink, and even to the point where people ate people. Sima Zheng did not understand that the common people could not eat or drink, and asked the ministers, "If the people have no grain to eat, why don't they eat minced meat?" Minced meat is porridge. This story does not show that Sima Zheng has pathological "idiot" symptoms, but can only show that Sima Zheng is too bureaucratic, has never been out of the palace gate, and does not understand the suffering of the people. His food was porridge every day, and no matter how much trouble there was in the world, Sima Zheng's porridge was inexhaustible and inexhaustible. Therefore, he believes by feeling that the porridge in the world cannot be eaten, he can eat it, and the people can naturally eat it. So there is this question.
Another allusion is that Sima Zheng heard the toads in the pond calling and asked the ministers around him, for whom the toads in the pond were called? The ministers around them answered very appropriately, calling for the public on the public land and for the private on the private land. This allusion alone cannot judge that Sima Zheng is an "idiot", although this question is very "naïve", but how to understand it? The so-called universal world, can not be the king's land; the coast of the land, can not be the king's subjects. The whole world is the emperor's, if you meet a courtier, answer the toads under the sky are all for the emperor, blessing the emperor a long life without boundaries, is it also a good story? If Sima Zheng was not an emperor of a subjugated country, but an emperor like the Qianlong Emperor, could it also be seen as the emperor's wit to test his ministers?
Jia Nanfeng
Medical "idiot" is a disease, the patient's mental development is severely incomplete, the movement is dull, the language function is not sound, the serious even life can not take care of itself, Sima Zheng obviously has no slow movement, the language is also fluent, life can take care of itself. Sima Yan and Yang Yan are both dragons and phoenixes among people, and there is no reason to give birth to a pathological idiot. It's just that the questions sima zheng asked seemed a bit naïve to others, so he called him an "idiot." Sima Zheng only had a problem with his IQ, and did not have the IQ of an emperor and the ability to govern the world. He was an incompetent emperor, and the Western Jin Dynasty perished because of him.
<h1>Virtue was not worthy of the throne, and the puppet emperor was killed </h1>
The so-called "virtue is not worthy of the position, there will be a residual disaster." The world of the Sima family was originally disrespectful, it was to force the Cao family to "Zen Concession" to win the Jiangshan, and Sima Yanxiong was still able to suppress it, but Sima Zhengwen could not settle the state, wu could not determine the country, and if there was a problem with IQ, it would not be able to suppress it. The transition from a chaotic world to a chaotic world requires a certain amount of skill and political ability; the transition from ruling the world to a chaotic world seems to be overnight. What is certain is that according to Sima Yan's heroic strategy, he could not let a pathological "idiot" inherit the throne. Sima Zheng is not sick, but his IQ is not high, if you take a positive word, it can be said that he is generous. According to the ancient admonition that the elder did not pass on the young, Sima Yan originally did not want to pass the throne to Sima Zheng, but he could not withstand the opposition of the empress and some other ministers, and had to follow common sense. In fact, after Sima Zheng succeeded to the throne, he also wanted to buy people's hearts and minds, so he took certain measures, such as exempting the people from taxes for one year, and promoting all the official positions in the world to one level, but because he did not have the ability to govern, although he succeeded to the throne in his prime, he needed Yang Jun, a lieutenant and governor, to assist him. Yang Jun had neither virtue nor high hope, nor self-sufficiency in personality, nor the ability to govern, and competed with Sima Zheng's empress Jia Nanfeng for power, so a court farce began.
The "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" led to the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty and the turmoil of nearly three hundred years
In this court farce, Sima Zheng was like an outsider at the mercy of others, with no ability to intervene and deal with it. He trusted Empress Jia Nanfeng very much, but Jia Nanfeng was not a virtuous queen, but an empress in history who was both lascivious and cruel, and vicious. The Rebellion of the Eight Kings was actually caused by Jia Nanfeng. Jia Nanfeng plotted not only to kill Yang Jun, but also to kill Sima Liang, the empress dowager, and the crown prince, which finally triggered the opposition of the Sima family. Jia Nanfeng was outraged, but Sima Zheng did not take any measures, and when a minister advised him that Yang Jun could not rebel, he also maintained a silent attitude, resulting in the killing of Yang Jun, who was cowardly and cowardly. Sima Zheng's indulgence of Jia Nanfeng eventually harmed Jia Nanfeng, and he himself was eventually killed, and the country thus entered an era of turmoil, causing irreparable losses to the entire country and the entire nation. The Han people almost died because of Sima Zheng's mental weakness and incompetence.
<h1>"Idiots" cannot be in power for seventeen years </h1>
Although Sima Zheng was incompetent, he ruled for seventeen years. If Sima Zheng was a pathological "idiot", it is conceivable that the ministers would have assisted him for seventeen years. Although his administration is like a puppet, the superficial work still has to be done. It can be seen from Sima Zheng that Sima Yan's education work has not been done well. He did not understand his son, and was often deceived by the tricks of the people around him, mistakenly believing that his son was generous and could sit firmly with the assistance of a virtuous minister. However, Sima Yan's mistake was that he established a mentally handicapped emperor, but did not leave Liu Chan with the assistance of Zhuge Liang, a sage. Sima Yan left the auxiliary chancellor Yang Jun to his son, and the empress Jia Nanfeng who married his son, one is not virtuous, the second is not beautiful, the third is not virtuous, and the auxiliary political team is too poor, which is also the reason for the Sima Zheng dynasty from governance to chaos.
After the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, China entered the Period of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms (Wu Hu Chaohua).
Rao was like this, Sima Zheng was still emperor for seventeen years, and was killed at the age of forty-eight. In the feudal dynasty, forty-eight years old is also a very old emperor. You know, from Qin Shi Huang to the last emperor Puyi, the average life expectancy of the emperor was only forty-one years old. Sima Zheng, the foolish emperor, was much older than the average life expectancy. If he hadn't been killed, he might have been an emperor for a long time.